Ithaca. Cornell University Press. 1987. Map, 290pp, bibliography, index, light bump upper cover right-hand corners, a good paperback copy. The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up... More about Japan Prepares for Total War. The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941

Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1996. Maps, black and white illustrations, 556pp, notes, appendices, bibliography, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. During recent remembrances of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, many aspects of the Pacific campaign were eclipsed by the debate over the dropping of... More about Touched with Fire. The Land War in the South Pacific

New York. Ticknor & Fields. 1992. Maps, including endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 622pp, bibliography, chronology, index, 4 lower leaves creased, minor damage to spine, worn dustjacket, still a sound copy. This work offers "a stunning account of the battle of Okinawa, the last major campaign... More about Tennozan. The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb

New York. Alfred. A. Knopf. 2013. Map, black and white illustrations, xxi + 320pp, notes, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the... More about Japan 1941. Countdown to Infamy

London. Kegan Paul. 1991. xi + 322pp, notes, references, index, dustjacket spine little sunned, very good hardback copy. This study "clarifies the psychology and status of the Japanese people from 1931, when Japan's military expansion started, to 1945, when Japan was defeated in the Pacific war." Publisher's description. (When referring... More about Group Psychology of the Japanese in Wartime

Urbana. University of Illinois Press. (c.1973). 258pp, suggestions for further reading, dustjacket a little rubbed, now protected, a very good hardback copy. The Tandoran Journals of Charles Kikuchi, edited with an introduction by John Modell. Kikuchi was one of the American-born majority of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans who were... More about The Kikuchi Diary. Cronichles from an American Concentration Camp

New York. Viking Press. 1944. Foreword by Joseph C. Grew. xi + 203pp, index, endpapers browned, name front free endpaper, occasional pencilling throughout, binding out of shape, a sound copy. An interesting analysis of the Japanese Army and it's place in Japanese life by an American academic at Hokkaido Imperial... More about Japan's Military Masters. The Army in Japanese Life